Re: logwatch and logrotate might create a blind spot in reporting
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Sami Pitko wrote:
> There are some ways to make logwatch reports more reliable:
>
> * set "Archives = yes" in logwatch.conf. You might also want to tune
> archive settings in /etc/log.d/conf/logfiles/ to prevent unnecessary
> processing of really old archives. To cover the blind spot with range
> 'yesterday' and weekly rotation, it is usually enough to specify for
> example "Archive = secure.1" in secure.conf
>
> * move logwatch and logrotate to happen at midnight
>
> * change date matching logic in /etc/log.d/scripts to match for example
> previous 24 hours
or add the following to the logrotate configuration file:
prerotate
/full/path/logwatch
endscript
Then it will run logwatch just before it rotates the file.